Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-23
CONFLICTING ~ENACTMENTS.
The Pickle in Which the License and
Gambling Laws Place she City.

Buttercup mixed the babies. The Trea
urer is in receipt of the new gambling la
and the new license law and he will requi,
legal assistance to help him decide what t
do. On the 9th of March tn
Governor approved a general gamblin
law making it unlawful to carry on thre,
card monte, strap game. thimblerig. patent
safe game, black and red game (commonl
known as ten-dice game), percentage stuc
horse poker, percentage draw poker, twer
ty-one high ball, blue jay, chuck luck, shor
faro or any similar game or games or in
ducing any person whatever to make an
bet or wager at any such game. Whoeve
is convicted OF doing SO shall be deeme'
guilty of a felony and on conviction shal
be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for
term not exceeding two years and fined no
less than 500 nor more than $1,000
Half the fine goes to the informer and tn
other half to the schools. This is the law OF
Skin" games, which went into effect on it,
passage,
On The 10th of March the Governor ap
proved the general license law, which Ii
censes the foregoing games, including al
other forms of gambling. fixing the licens,
at $500 = month for each table and rails
ing faro to $40 a month in place of $25. II
places the general gambling house license al
800 per quarter and rails 8 billiard anG
pool tables to $40 a quarterfor each table
This act takes effect on the first of July
and repeats all conflicting laws. How to
reconcile these two il the Treasurer's prob.
lem.
THE GENERAL LICENSE LAW.
The other provisions of the license law
are: Theaters, $50 a month or 50 a day;
circuses, $50 a day and IS for sideshows;
| ~ vDnh~o6n~o nn-n a. lklo~ COO -
quarter; intelligence Offices are reduced to
lawyers, doctors. etc., same as hitherto,
SIG a year; assayers, $40 a quarter; livery
stables, same as now; o~mnibuses, carriages,
express wagons, transfer and freight
wagons run for hire or profit. $3.50 each
horse per quarter; dealers ir go DDS. wares
and merchandise, drugs orn dsci les ,jewelry
or wares Of precious ut tails are taxed
from 50 to $40 per quarter "a reduction);
a%uctioneers' licenses remain the same as
now; restaurants, lodging houses, boarding
houses and hotels, $2.5I per quarter when
doing business over 81, 900 a quarter, and
$3.50 for each additional $4,000; retail
liquor dealers selling less than one gallon.
in cities, towns, villages or camps contain
ing a population of 5000 or over, $500 a
year; in places of 1000 and under $500,
$500 a year; of over 800, and under L.
600, $24O a year; in places OF less than
300 population. $3.50 a year; saloons out.
side of towns or villages, 500 a year;
dealers in liquors in quantities OF more
than one gallon, in places having a popula-
ton of $500 or over, 5000 a year; all
other places. 1925 a year; peddlers' H.
cense the same as now; skating Kinks, $50
per quarter; water companies the same as
now; launlries, where only male persons
are employed, reduced to IS per quarter;
lotteries or prize distributions, $3.50 per
quarter; bowling alleys, shooting galleries
and ex Dress companies, same as now; COM
mercial travellers license, 500 a quarter
or $500 a year, taken out in any county
good for the entire Territory; telegraph
and telephone companies, 81 per annum on
each OF it's instruments in use; gas and elec-
trio light companies, $25 a quarter.
APPLICATION TO SELL LIQUOR
shall be made to the County Clerk, stating
the length of time for which license is de.
sired and the place where business is to be
carried on and shall be accompanied by a
petition therefor signed by ten resident
freeholders of the town, ward or vicinity
where the sale Of liquors is proposed to
take place. The County Clerk shall there
upon issue to said applicant a certificate
that the provisions of the law have
been complied with and upon the presenta-
ton OF such certificate the County Treas
urer shall issue thu: license prayed for. All
licenses are payable in advance. The
Commissioners are given
power to revoke licenses issued under
the provisions of this act upon convic-
ton of violation OF any of the
intoxica ting liquors. The act prohibits the
40 10 of IiOnora RI minors oprranficoa nr |
servants under 21; Indians, insane oridiot-
ic persons, or habitual %drunkards, or keep
ing a disorderly house. The penalty for
violation is the forfeiture of license and a |
of $50, half to go to the informer and
half to the county.
RECORDER AND SHERIFF..
The liberality of the Legislature to the
Recorder and Sheriff, however, makes the
Commissioners gasp and claw the
air in impotent wrath. One of these gen.
made the atmosphere in a room of
The Court house blue with imprecations
IN the stupidity of the legislators in
the laws governing these Offices.
He asked what they we're going to do for
unds. He was positive the gamblers would
Jake out N licenses, for. the way he read
The laws, it made no difference whether
hey had license u ~not-they we're subject
20 ArTest Auu prOSecuVIOn III duy CAse.
Then the Recorder gets all the fees in his
,fice and a salary besides, and we have
o pay his clerk hire in addition" he added
With a choking sob rising IN his throat and
the picture OF despair. The ami
lble young Recorder tried to look miser-
Ible in sympathy with the Commissioner
,ut he failed ignobly, for this is how the re-
emit legislative tumble leaves him:
By the provisions OF the act amendingl
5S5 and 500, of chapter 25 of the
revised Statutes of Montana. the Sheriff
nd Recorder are given authority to COL
ect fees for every service required by law
o be performed by them. 1t is a complete
&c bill for each OF the Offices in ques-
ion and gives them the fees when
in lieu of all other salary or
gives the fees to
hem and says nothing about any present
ompensatiOn. 1t was doubtless meant to
g in place OF the salary-$3.OOO to the
heriff and $4,000 to the Recorder-now
to these gentlemen, but since it is
OF alluded to, it is still theirs, and they
ill draw these very handsome allowances
the fees as well. In the Recorders;
use it is computed to amount to $4,000 a
additional and in the Sheriff's case to
1900: OF course this anomaly was never
Some rectiication will be neces-
AIRY at once. even at the expense of an ad-
itional legislative session. Il.
THE JURY LAW.
The new jury law compels jurors + o serve
justices or probate courts without pay,
8 the fees when collected shall be paid to
County Treasurer. Tb-re is no pro-
for him to pay them to the Jurors.
r anybody else to do 80, and how the
lrors are going to get their pay is q prob.
IN yet.
To Billy Lynn, .
In answer to your challenge in Tuesday ,
lorning's MINER l will accept your chal-
nge and meet you in a 2O-round glove !
,ntest. But not for less than$25Oa side, :
Winner to take all. Should this meet your .
pproval an early answer will oblige .
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